14 BOOKS ON FALCONRY. 



Fox, Gray, Cony : Of Birds and Faulconrie : The 

 Contents whereof are to be seene in the page follow- 

 ing. [Woodcut.] London. Printed by Arnold Hat- 

 field for John Norton and John Bill. 1606. 4to. 



Liebault, in his address to the reader, refers to " the editions 

 already so oft by me augmented within these eighteen yeares, 

 during which they have been printed in all countries." This 

 would place the date of the first edition about 1588. There is 

 a folio of 1600, a 4to of 1606, and another folio edited by 

 Gervase Markham in 16 16. The original work was so popular 

 that more than a hundred editions appeared in French, to say 

 nothing of translations in English, Italian, and German. 



The seventh Book contains three chapters (xlii., xliii. and xliv.) 

 on Hawking, of little value, and with numerous errors of both 

 translator and printer. 



17. S. (T.). A Iewell FOR Gentrie. Being an exact 

 Dictionary or true Method to make any man understand 

 all the Art, Secrets and worthy Knowledges belonging 

 to Hawking, Hunting, Fowling and Fishing. Together 

 with all the true Measures for Winding of the Home. 

 Now newly published, and beautified with all the rarest 

 experiments that are known or practised at this Day. 

 [Woodcut as in Turbervile, No. 15.] Printed at 

 London for John Helme, and are to be sold at his 

 shop in St. Dunstanes Church-yard in Fleet Street, 

 1 6 14. sm. 4to. 



A thin 4to of 98 pp. in black letter, except title ; Dedication, 

 and address *' To the Reader." It is divided into four books, 

 styled, according to the head-lines, the Booke of Hawking (p. 37), 

 the Booke of Hunting, the Booke of Fouling, and the Booke of 

 Fishing. The two last have separate titles within borders. 



The following is a transcript of the entry of this book in the 

 Register of the Stationers' Company: — '' 18 Nov. 1613. John 

 Helme entred for his coppie by the consent of Elizabeth Olive, 

 wydowe, a book heretofore printed by Richard Olive called a 



